RE: Re: CULT - Genetic Engineering

Walter,

That is just it.  Neither has been proven to be a hazard to anyone's health
at the present time.  There is not enough data in to state whether either
may prove to be a hazard or not.  Just keep in mind that the media needs
eyes and/or ears to make it viable, so they have a tendency to accentuate
the negative, and one must read carefully and be widely read to determine
what the truth may or may not be.  I do have the unfair advantage of having
a good number of science writers around me three days a week at one of the
sites I work, so I do have a tendency to pick up on this stuff a bit more
than the average person.  I also have the misfortune of seeing more
motorcades, expensive cars (Rolls, Bentleys, Lotus, Jaguars, high end
Mercedes, Ferraris, etc. than the average person also because of the area I
am in, but I still look <g>.

\\Steve//
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-----Original Message-----
From: wmoores@watervalley.net [w*@watervalley.net]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 8:26 AM
To: iris-talk@egroups.com
Subject: RE: [iris-talk] Re: CULT - Genetic Engineering


> Walter,
>
> You seem to have two things mixed up here.  First, on the genetic
> engineered corn the problem is that it has not been studied enough to
> say it is safe for human consumption.  The fear is an allergic
> reaction.  The second is that the FDA wants poultry producers to stop
> using two antibiotics for fear that they are creating a stronger
> strain of the various bacteria they are supposed to eliminate, ones
> that can be passed along to humans, and that stronger drugs will be
> needed to cure humans should this happen.  {lease note that in the
> former there is a fear of allergic reaction and in the later there is
> a fear of bacterial contamination, neither of which are related.
>
	I am sorry I confused anybody.  I just reported what I had read
in the paper and heard on nightly news about the 'hazard to your
health things.  If the above are not 'hazards to your health,' then I
clearly don't understand the meaning of the phrase.  Allergic
reactions make one sick, and to me, that is a hazard.  Bacterial
contamination is a hazard, too. Wouldn't that make one sick, too, if
you ate the product?

> For fear of starting a way off topic discussion, I would state that I
> am neither for nor against genetic engineering.
>

   Nor am I.


> \\Steve//


	Walter Moores
	Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8






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